- Kia celebrates the completion of Hyundai Motor Group’s first devoted EV manufacturing facility
- Kia Gwangmyeong EVO Plant, positioned at Kia Autoland Gwangmyeong, to mass-produce Kia EV3 and EV4 fashions
- The brand new facility to have manufacturing capability of 150,000 items per yr
- Earlier inside combustion engine (ICE) automobile plant reworked to facilitate EV manufacturing and speed up supply of Kia’s strategic sustainable manufacturing and mobility objectives
- Slicing-edge manufacturing initiatives embody water-based portray in addition to automated processes
- The EVO Plant to set a brand new period for Kia’s transfer in direction of electrification, by way of manufacturing of the model’s prime quality EV lineup
Kia Company has at the moment celebrated the opening of Kia Gwangmyeong EVO Plant, Hyundai Motor Group’s (the Group) first devoted EV manufacturing facility.
Positioned at Kia Autoland Gwangmyeong, the brand new South Korean facility has an annual manufacturing capability of 150,000 items and began manufacturing of the Kia EV3 within the first half of this yr, to be adopted by the EV4 within the first half of 2025. Derived from the time period ‘Evolution’, the Kia Gwangmyeong EVO Plant demonstrates how Kia will proceed to vary and transfer ahead because it goals to turn into a frontrunner in the way forward for mobility.
To rejoice the completion of the mission, Kia hosted round 150 visitors throughout a ceremony on the new Kia Gwangmyeong EVO Plant, together with Jun Younger Choi, Govt Vice President and Head of Home Manufacturing Division at Kia; Seung Gained Park, Mayor of Gwangmyeong Metropolis; and O Kyeong Lim and Nam Hee Kim, Members of the twenty second Nationwide Meeting of the Republic of Korea.
“The completion of the Kia Gwangmyeong EVO Plant solidifies Kia’s first step as an EV chief following the corporate’s model relaunch in 2021. With the objective of offering sustainable mobility options, we are going to lead innovation within the EV market and fulfil our tasks in serving to to ship a sustainable future”, mentioned Jun Younger Choi, Govt Vice President and Head of Home Manufacturing Division at Kia, throughout a welcoming speech on the occasion.
Seung Gained Park, Mayor of Gwangmyeong Metropolis additionally added, “The completion of the Kia Gwangmyeong EVO Plant will assist Gwangmyeong Metropolis to determine itself on the heart of the EV business in Korea. By way of this we are going to attempt to advertise sustainable improvement of the native economic system and create extra jobs.”
In an effort to flexibly reply to adjustments in international demand for EVs, Kia has been steadily making ready for EV manufacturing at its international amenities. The Gwangmyeong EVO Plant is a devoted EV facility, with an funding complete of KRW 401.6 billion over roughly 60,000 sq. meters and can function an outpost for manufacturing of Kia’s fashionable EV fashions.
Kia has spent roughly one yr remodeling Gwangmyeong Plant 2, which was accomplished in 1987 to provide small inside combustion engine automobiles such because the Kia Satisfaction, Avella and Stonic. The Kia Gwangmyeong EVO Plant can be significant in that it’s the Group’s first devoted EV plant and a facility that has been fully rebuilt on an present plant website to turn into a hub for next-generation automobile manufacturing.
Opening a brand new period for of EVs with full-fledged electrification
Kia Gwangmyeong EVO Plant is characterised beneath the theme of ‘pursuing most change by way of minimal growth’ in consideration of its metropolis heart location and different environmental components, corresponding to safety of inexperienced areas.
As well as, the plant has been constructed with a full-scale conversion to electrification in thoughts, specializing in ‘eco-friendly’ and ‘worker-friendly’ processes.
The physique store is now a high-tech logistics manufacturing facility because of the introduction of automated guided (AGV) forklifts, and the inexperienced credentials of the paint store have been elevated by making use of the water-based 3C1B methodology as a substitute of the earlier oil-based 3C2B methodology. New tools has additionally been launched to enhance wellbeing and scale back the workload of plant workers, together with equipment which may routinely set up high-voltage batteries, wheels and tires on the automobiles.
Following the completion ceremony of the Gwangmyeong EVO Plant, Kia will ramp up EV manufacturing. Mass manufacturing of the EV3, the model’s compact all-electric SUV, started within the first half of this yr. The EV3 is Kia’s third devoted EV mannequin after the Kia EV6, the model’s all-electric crossover SUV launched in 2021, and the Kia EV9 all-electric flagship SUV launched in 2023.
Within the first half of 2025, Kia plans to introduce the EV4, the model’s mid-sized electrical sedan. Kia plans to make the most of the Gwangmyeong EVO Plant as a key manufacturing base for the corporate’s EV fashions, together with the EV3 and EV4, with an annual manufacturing capability of 150,000 items.
By way of the manufacturing of the model’s high-quality EV fashions, the Kia Gwangmyeong EVO Plant will start a brand new period for Kia’s transfer in direction of electrification. A video of the Kia Gwangmyeong EVO Plant can be accessible right here.
